Any fan of The Celestine Prophesy, Tomb Raider, Indiana Jones, Michael Crichton novels, and Stargate will find this book an intellectual delight and thrilling tour de force. Based upon exhaustive historical research, documents of antiquity, and some of the most controversial theories of modern science, it pits the arch rivals of science and religion in the same crucible, in a fashion guaranteed to astonish and amaze. This is a book meant to be read more than once, leaving the reader wondering just how much of it is really fiction. In regards to man's origins and purpose on th earth, it dares to ask the heretical question, "What if everything didn't happen exactly like they told us?"
What if all of ancient history, all that is commonly believed throughout the world about human origins and the birth of civilization, was all a lie -- a deliberate distortion designed to conceal a dangerous but profound truth about mankind? What if many ancient myths, legends, and lore were in fact actual depictions of earths true history?
THE MUSTARD SEED is a work of fiction. Yet it deals with the eternal clash between science and religion, the perpetual struggle of fact versus faith. Predicated upon a wealth of historical and archaeological documents of antiquity, and voluminous contemporary scientific research, this story serves to posit an alternative cosmology, where much of the debate can finally be laid to rest, and a devastatingly new unified truth emerges. This fast-paced thriller is guaranteed to both shock and mystify, leaving you wondering whether or not this fictional flight of imagination might actually contain an uncanny measure of historical truth.
Theologians have vainly struggled for centuries to twist logic and common sense to circuitously manufacture allegorical or spiritualized explanations for the puzzling facts detailed in the biblical Book of Genesis, Chapter 6. Who were the "sons of God," the Nephilim, who according to Holy Writ, wantonly impregnated human females and produced such deadly and degenerate mutant offspring that God Himself saw no other option but to destroy all of mankind in a massive deluge?
Modern scientists have similarly struggled to explain in their own blind orthodoxy how human evolution progressed upon a relatively straight line for millions of years, advancing to the primitive homo erectus stage, and then seemingly overnight, homo sapiens (modern man) burst on the scene rearing great civilizations and high culture, with a grasp of complex and advanced disciplines such as astronomy, mathematics, and engineering that rival their contemporary counterparts and defy rational explanation to this very day. This is fact, not fiction.
For example, in ancient ruins found in Lebanon today there exist temples whose foundations are constructed of precision cut stones quarried from miles away, some weighing in excess of 1,000 tons eachfar more weight than any modern crane, vehicle, or lifting device can bear. The same is true of cyclopean monoliths found in the walls of the lost cities of the Incas high in the Andes mountains of South America. How can these things be?
THE MUSTARD SEED envisions a most astonishing answer.
About the Author
The Mustard Seed is Robert Gelinas' sixth novel. He currently lives in Atlanta, GA with his wife Joanna.
